SOC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Herbert Mead, Georg Simmel, Dominant Ideology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Sociological imagination: developing an appreciation of how individual challenges are influences by a larger social force. Personal troubles vs social issues: personal troubles: results from individual challenges. They require individual solutions: social issues: cause by larger social factors and require collective solutions. A theory is a set of interrelated propositions constructed and fitting together logically, which claims to explain one or more aspects of the world around us. It is important because explanations can be described as the stories we tell each other produce some order in our lives. ), popularity (popularity does not mean validity, just because its popular; doesn"t mean its true). Scope: the range of phenomena that a theory can explain. Parsimony: the simplest explanation is the most correct explanation. John locke (1632-1704: god was responsible for the emergence of society and government, tabula rasa; people are born as blank states, right to self-preservation and to private property, individual autonomy and freedom.